The Herbal Scents of Farm Life

Chapter 3399: Chapter 3400: It’s All Your Fault

How could it be him? He looks so honest, like someone who’s easy to bully. During the holidays, didn’t everything he sent to our parents end up in his own mouth anyway?

Who would have thought he could do something like this, coming over in the middle of the night to hit him?

"Who else could it be?"

Father Ya looked at the two with cold eyes and retorted.

Just that day, they had gone to Ya Guman’s house to make a fuss, and that night Ya Cangman was beaten up. How could it be such a coincidence?

"The damned bastard, daring to hit Cangman, I won’t let him off!" Mother Ya, upon realizing it was her own less-favored son who hit her precious son, started howling.

"Tomorrow morning I must tell the clan leader to remove that scoundrel from the genealogy. Hitting his own brother, why doesn’t he just die!"

"Enough! Aren’t you done yet?!"

Father Ya’s head was spinning from his wife’s wailing.

"Isn’t our family already humiliated enough? Keep howling, and I’ll throw you all out, and we won’t live this life anymore!"

"Dad, he did hit me!"

Ya Cangman gritted his teeth, looking at his father.

He had been beaten, couldn’t his own father seek justice for him?

This time he would make sure Ya Guman paid a price. That kid had been working in the woods these years and surely had some money.

"Who can prove it was Ya Guman who hit you?" Father Ya was much more clear-headed than his son.

It was so dark outside at that late hour, they didn’t see who it was. Who could prove that it was Ya Guman who did it?

If Ya Guman just denied everything, what could anyone do to him? Could they forcibly pin this on him?

Even the clan leader needs evidence, doesn’t he?

"I... I..."

Ya Cangman was left speechless by his father’s words.

Seeing his son’s silence, Father Ya let out a cold snort.

"If you dare tell the clan leader that, Guman will say he didn’t do anything, and you... what if the whole village hears about you cajoling your mother and me to ask Guman for Lin Caiqing’s dowry!

This involves the Lin Clan; when that time comes, the clan leader is sure to be pressured by the new leader of the Lin Clan, and it will all be your fault. It’s a wonder if the clan leader doesn’t expel us from Ya Village!"

"Hiss!"

Ya Cangman drew in a breath, unsure whether he was frightened or in pain.

"But, but... asking him to get more dowry from Lin Caiqing was for his own good, right? When he has the money, he can enjoy life, can’t he?"

He had thought it through well before; once Lin Caiqing married Ya Guman, a portion of that dowry would surely have to honor the in-laws.

And in the end, wouldn’t it all be his?

But now, he had gained nothing, and how could he be content?

"It’s you who will enjoy it, huh?"

Father Ya looked at his son with resentment.

Of course, who doesn’t want to enjoy life and have more money at home?

"I told you all along, once Lin Caiqing marries Guman, we can deal with them then. By then, she would be part of our Ya Family, and we can do whatever we want.

But she’s not yet. The amount of her dowry is up to the Lin Family. If we push the Lin Family too hard, we might end up with nothing!"